The Strong Room

This is the name of Andrea Brady's 2016 collection, which I am reading.




Animation

I dreamed that all the places we had walked were continuous
and we walked them again with the undulating cloth
sometimes sinking or rising as the suns
stitched to the cloth and a bowl of green bending
upwards from the spells of our elimination.
But really night comes as grief:


another day split from thousands, etching
a hairline crack in the rock of what is achievable.
All around Buddhas collapse to powder.
Your hand is beside me, limp, relaxed,
a prop to be taken and made to talk,
your clothes are rags in a hundred years
cast by the brown water    ....




(Opening lines of "Animation", from The Strong Room)






The interview below is helpful:


http://poetrylondon.co.uk/on-radical-tenderness-andrea-brady-talks-to-andrew-spragg/




Andrea Brady's Warton Lecture "The Determination of Love". Text:
https://www.britac.ac.uk/publications/determination-love


Audio:
https://www.britac.ac.uk/audio/determination-love-andrea-brady